Ezekiel 6

Berean Standard Bible

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The Lord commands Ezekiel to prophesy against the mountains, hills, ravines, and valleys of Israel, announcing that a sword will destroy their high places, demolish their altars, smash their incense altars, and scatter the corpses of the Israelites before their idols. Throughout all inhabited areas, cities will be laid waste and altars desecrated while the slain fall among the people. However, God states that a remnant will escape the sword and be scattered among the nations, where the survivors will remember Him, loathe themselves for their evil deeds and adulterous hearts, and recognize His sovereignty. The Lord further instructs Ezekiel to clap his hands, stomp his feet, and cry out over the wicked abominations of the house of Israel, declaring that those far off will die by the plague, those near by the sword, and the survivors by famine. Finally, God affirms that He will stretch out His hand and make the land a desolate waste from the wilderness to Diblah so that they will know He is the Lord.

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¹And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, ²“Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them. ³You are to say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places. ⁴Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will cast down your slain before your idols. ⁵I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars. ⁶Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out. ⁷The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD. ⁸Yet I will leave a remnant, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the nations and throughout the lands. ⁹Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations. ¹⁰And they will know that I am the LORD; I did not declare in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them. ¹¹This is what the Lord GOD says: Clap your hands, stomp your feet, and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel, who will fall by sword and famine and plague. ¹²He who is far off will die by the plague, he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains will die by famine. So I will vent My fury upon them. ¹³Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols. ¹⁴I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”

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